Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:43:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WSFA Journal story stimulation?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Eva Whitley wrote:

> I'm not confident of my ability to write fiction, and the words
> "writing contest" leaves me with unpleasant flashbacks of helping
> judge the N3F story contest but I could write an account of my trip to
> Gettysburg last weekend in which I tried to figure out things you
> could do in Gettysburg if you didn't want to go to the battlefield.
>
> It's an odd town for restaurants: driving south to north, the
> restaurants go from tacky to upscale. (With the exception of the
> Lincoln Diner, near the college.) I kept wondering if I kept driving
> all the way up to Carlisle if I would pass Le Bec Fin or Maisonette.

I wonder if that's related to the North-South division that exists in
most countries (in very rare examples it's East-West).  It seems there
is almost always one end of a country that is richer/more snobbish/etc
than the other.  Usually the North gets the positive reputation but
in England it was the South (because of London and Canterbury, versus
the factory towns of the North).

=Tamar